It's not so simple - Oregon's constitution grants more speech protection than our federal constitution. The fact that the finding specifically cites the Oregon rather than federal constitution seems telling to me.
Another argument - this show effectively became The Peanuts years ago. They could have been playing nothing but reruns for the last five years and few would have even notice.
I'd disagree about Le Show, but that's beside the point.
I understand that people like CT, but my local NPR (opb.org) pays to play them twice a weekend. I know from listening to other NPR affiliates across the country over the 'net that there are some seriously good programs available for broadcast - programs that I suspect would even cost *less*.
My NPR affiliates love to brag on the diversity and alternative voices that they provide to the community, but on weekends they spam me with nothing but Wait Wait, Praire HC, Car Talk and Michael Whoever's show. Few of those are terrible on their own merits, but the opportunity cost is disgraceful.
Things have gotten marginally better over the years, but the weekend is a wasteland of chuckleheads. Every time the local NPR station brags on diversity I roll my eyes and think that I've always been able to listen to re-runs of CT twice a weekend but they've never broadcast a single episode of Tavis Smiley.
I get their point - they're more serious than the fart-sound morning shows and more diverse than the honkey-trash christian country on other stations, but that should by no means be the hurdle by which they judge themselves.
I'd seriously like to see a report on what is being paid for programming and what programming was turned down when the pledge drive comes around. I've always suspected that two lesser-known informative shows are passed by in order to chum the weekends with hyena talk.
I guess you can tag the parent Flamebait, but I think it serves a valid purpose. Not everyone loves the show. Some people are sickened by the thousands of hours of perfectly good broadcast time that are wasted on the hyenas in question each week.
To quote Harry Shearer, whose Le Show followed Car Talk at the time, "Memo to the Car Talk guys: Stop Laughing."
I use and highly recommend LastPass + Yubikey. Gives me multifactor authentication and every site has its own individual, huge, strong password.
This has the added bonus of giving you an exhaustive list of every single account you've got. That, added with the fact that you can tag the stored credentials as being in different groups, makes rotating the subset of credentials that are most sensitive convenient enough that you can do it monthly if you'd like - it takes me 10 minutes tops.
I once drove from (somewhere) to (somewhere 6 hours away) listening to nothing but Factory Showroom - coming from a person who loves whole albums, that was one fantastic album.
It's a pity if Mass has archaic laws that prohibit what should plainly be a fundamental right.
The questions I'm left with are:
1. What states have these archaic laws 2. What movements can I support in those (if need be, in MY) states?
All hyperbole aside, those are important bits of information. If they've already been provided, please forgive me for missing them in the haypile. If they haven't, I'd very much appreciate anyone who can provide info - I'm absolutely sick to death of these backward law enforcement laws and I know that this type of thing is something that eventually will not be dealt with by the general public in a rational manner. See London.
I can second this - I have three Apple TV's and four Airport Expresses in the house and can easily mix & match speakers across the whole property from the back yard to the garage, bedrooms and bathrooms. Controllable from any computer, iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple TV in the house (including guests' iPhones).
I received my DX a week ago now and am extremely pleased with it. PDF support is just fine - no zooming, no linking, no embedded video or HAL 9000 conversations either. It's fine for the PDFs you think it's gonna be fine for and likely not as fine for the ones you're suspicious about. Yes, symbolic stuff like math notation displays just fine - just not at microfilm resolution.
No, it won't zoom much - get a notebook if you want that. It's essentially a sheet-of-paper-emulator that the media has mistaken for a notebook. So if you'd expect to have to squint or hold the paper closer to your face on an economy-mode print of that PDF, expect the DX to struggle with it. All very common sense IMO.
This is a book reader that was made in the year 2009, not a holographic tricorder from 2020. It's primarily aimed at people who are satisfied with the written word in quantities exceeding the size of your typical AP story and who can sit quietly and just read for more than 30 minutes at a shot. Every dissatisfied Kindle review I've read tries to interpret the device in terms of the writer's politics (looking at you, DRM nuts) or some flashier gadget category, which has just reinforced my suspicion that reviewers are ADD children who just don't do much reading.
Seriously, in your brain your wife is a very complicated entity that's backed with a serious amount of information. Where you sat on your first date? That (hopefully) subtle look on her face when she can't stand her friend's conversation matter?
Might be more interesting to see how much you 'love' someone you actually despise but know very, very well.
Unless you have a horrible marriage or are a child, your marriage is a unique thing to your brain. Comparing it to your feelings for Angelina Anybody is just a little different than comparing it to your feelings for your driveway pavement (unless you're delusional... another result I'd love to see).
My anecdotal experience is that the Home Depot specials simply suck. I've purchased 6 over time and have seen each of them burn out faster than the plain ol' 100-watters.
And don't get me started on the outdoor ones... I live in a moderate climate that rarely dips below freezing and I've seen the 2 outdoor CF's I've tried fail in less than a year.
Kinda like the case against California's medical marijuana act... Since giving away free marajuana will cause a reduction in interstate drug trade it falls under the fed's jurisdiction due to the interstate commerce clause.
These people need to get a grip on what's real and what's *expected*. Maybe some statistics classes or something...
I've done 2 months of WoW (1 beta, 1 live) and it has left me unimpressed. No innovation, nothing new, lame graphics (even if you buy the whole 'style' thing), an atrocious patch download process, and at least 10% downtime in prime time hours (not counting the first few days).
Gamespot:
"The worst thing about World of Warcraft is that you can't just play it all the time."
No, I'd say the worst thing about it is the fact that I haven't been able to play it because of server outages and 39MB-over-6-hour patch downloads.
Gamespot:
"Warcraft features an overall level of quality that's typically reserved for the best offline games..."
Hm, well, if 'overall level of quality' is directly proportional to crash frequency you're dead on Gamespot! Why, my copy crashed 4 times just yesterday!
This might be the most anticipated game of the year (which would be saying something this year). It might be the most arousing game for you blizzard fetishists. But it's not the best all around game by a long shot.
For all its praise I'm not too happy with steam. The essence of which boiled down to this for me; pay $50 for a game, then download it at 30-50K/s (on a line capable of 200K/s). To add insult to injury, I have to go through Steam every time I try to play the game, which wastes a few seconds 'Preparing' for an unknown reason (I have heard that it actually connects to the server every time I play... which seems rather redundant)
My experience with Steam has been absolutely amazing, as has the experience of at least three friends... so perhaps we're the odd ones out, I don't know. When I downloaded HL2 I got steady speeds above 1 mbit/s and was shocked how quickly I had a playable game after the online purchase.
I don't experience any 'preparing' slowdown. And I'd be happy to suffer one in exchange for the seemless in-game server searching, buddy finding, chat, etc... Finally, NO MORE GAMESPY!
Some advice from my experience though: Don't buy the physical media. I have two copies on two computers, one downloaded and one from cds. The physical media copy arrived a day later, took swapping 5 cds to install, and requires a cd be in the drive when its played.
The copy downloaded from Steam does install-on-demand for the different games, didn't have to be attended while installing, and leaves my dvd drive free to play music or whatever while I play.
YMMV, but I find Steam to be an incredible feature of HL2, without a single drawback.
if (this || ( this && this && this ) && this || this ) { // blah }
My reasoning? - I like to see the logical operators grouped in a way that's quick and easy to read - Why stagger them on the ends of lines when you can group them on the beginnings of lines?
It's great hardware, has the 'big brother' factor for being made by MS, doesn't have much in the way of titles (so far)...
But one thing that XBox games can do is let you listen to your own music.
I have become addicted to the freestyle snowboarding game Amped in the last year (while taking a few co-workers with me;-). It's a great game that I'd probably play for a couple weeks under normal circumstances.
But because I can listen to a customizable soundtrack of either Amped-supplied music or my very own cd's (ripped to the hard drive under the XBox os-interface), the game has far outlived its normal lifespan.
Letting me listen to my own selection of music has upgraded this game from passing obsession to daily dose of relaxation.
There is terabytes of music out there that the RIAA has no claim on, support it!
I love attending live music events. A few years ago I took up the hobby of taping these events.
There are *TONS* of artists out there, many 'famous', who would love for you to (1) come see them (2) tape their performance (3) give them a copy and (4) give your friends copies.
They want you to spread their music for FREE.
Who are they? Here's the most comprehensive list I know of:
http://btat.wagnerone.com/
But that's only the tip of the iceburg. For every artist that the record industry has chosen to support there are another hundred that are just as good who are out there gigging every night. My experience is that, even if they're not on the list, they're open to taping.
Better yet, a lot of them would be happy to sit down for a beer or shoot the shit between sets.
These are the real artists people. If you're upset about this RIAA crap then they've already won because they've succeeded in making you believe that they hold the leashes of all musicians everywhere and that art and music is a commodity.
So, instead of going to Borders to pump another $17.99 into the pockets of these RIAA diamond merchants, take a turn towards a local bar or other music venue. Have a drink, say hi to the artist... that's whats real.
-J
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Granted, some applications are not suited for the web. But my experience is that the groups seeking to develop web apps usually have a strong and sensible motivation for developing a thin client application.
And if you're complaint is about web applications that shouldn't be web applications, I could not agree more.
But if they complaint is regarding the trouble you've had with developing web apps, which it seems to be, I have to come to the conclusion that you've done very little in the way of webapp development with Visual Studio.NET (ASP.NET), which is, after all, the subject here.
Before I rant on, my *nix credentials are: I have used linux primarily since Redhat 5.0 and work at a company that does 70% of its work in the *nix world.
That said...
I spent 4 months working with.NET starting in January and have this to report:
If there is ONE THING that.NET does well it's rapid, transparent, and object oriented (techinically & architecturally sound OO, that is) development of GUIS and, in particular, web applications! My research dealt with MFC, WinForms & WebForms. I have much experience with GUI development in Java also.
As much as I may love working in my cozy Emacs environs, I have to say that I was extremely impressed with what I could do with Visual Studio.NET. And the deeper I looked under the hood of ASP.NET the more impressed I was with its abilities.
You can develop ASP.NET web applications in VS.NET without really having to know that you're developing for the web at all. Or you can get down to the nitty-gritty and deal with low-level http details. You can remotely debug applications on other machines, stepping through code line-by-line. You can write GUI components that drag-and-drop into both WinForms and WebForms applications seamlessly, allowing you to develop business logic common to both web and win apps.
Though I never got to the implementation of this, you can likely implement/integrate the same drag-and-drop cross-platform components with mobile devices (PDAs, WAP, etc).
I could go on...
The best part is that the IDE has achieved a level of excellance that puts it in a class of its own. You can lay out, implement, debug, fix, debug, and deploy a webapp more quickly than in any other technology I have experienced. I *love* and mainly work in Java/Linux, but if someone came to me tomorrow and challenged me to get a webapp developed, debugged, deployed & stable in the shortest amount of time I'd have to go with ASP.NET.
[ and an important point here is that, with ASP.NET, I wouldn't have any problem with the 'webapp' part, it's a small distinction as long as you're using VS.NET ]
My conclusion matches closely what I have seen in analyst reports. Namely, that.NET will come to dominate (or at least be very competitive in) the front-end tier due to the wonderful (though proprietary and very expensive) tools suite that accompanies it. It will likely flounder in the other tiers due to (1) the fact that J2EE is proven and pervasive (2).NET is unproven (3) M$ seems to choose a 'next big thing for enterprise in the next decade' every three years and (4) a general hesitency to throw all eggs into the M$ basket.
But by all means though, acquire VS.NET and do some playing with ASP.NET if you're not convinced...
In conclusion, I'm happy to be back in Emacs, but I'm not left feeling 'dirty' for having visited the land of VS.NET.:-)
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It's not so simple - Oregon's constitution grants more speech protection than our federal constitution. The fact that the finding specifically cites the Oregon rather than federal constitution seems telling to me.
Another argument - this show effectively became The Peanuts years ago. They could have been playing nothing but reruns for the last five years and few would have even notice.
I'd disagree about Le Show, but that's beside the point.
I understand that people like CT, but my local NPR (opb.org) pays to play them twice a weekend. I know from listening to other NPR affiliates across the country over the 'net that there are some seriously good programs available for broadcast - programs that I suspect would even cost *less*.
My NPR affiliates love to brag on the diversity and alternative voices that they provide to the community, but on weekends they spam me with nothing but Wait Wait, Praire HC, Car Talk and Michael Whoever's show. Few of those are terrible on their own merits, but the opportunity cost is disgraceful.
Things have gotten marginally better over the years, but the weekend is a wasteland of chuckleheads. Every time the local NPR station brags on diversity I roll my eyes and think that I've always been able to listen to re-runs of CT twice a weekend but they've never broadcast a single episode of Tavis Smiley.
I get their point - they're more serious than the fart-sound morning shows and more diverse than the honkey-trash christian country on other stations, but that should by no means be the hurdle by which they judge themselves.
I'd seriously like to see a report on what is being paid for programming and what programming was turned down when the pledge drive comes around. I've always suspected that two lesser-known informative shows are passed by in order to chum the weekends with hyena talk.
I guess you can tag the parent Flamebait, but I think it serves a valid purpose. Not everyone loves the show. Some people are sickened by the thousands of hours of perfectly good broadcast time that are wasted on the hyenas in question each week.
To quote Harry Shearer, whose Le Show followed Car Talk at the time, "Memo to the Car Talk guys: Stop Laughing."
I use and highly recommend LastPass + Yubikey. Gives me multifactor authentication and every site has its own individual, huge, strong password.
This has the added bonus of giving you an exhaustive list of every single account you've got. That, added with the fact that you can tag the stored credentials as being in different groups, makes rotating the subset of credentials that are most sensitive convenient enough that you can do it monthly if you'd like - it takes me 10 minutes tops.
I once drove from (somewhere) to (somewhere 6 hours away) listening to nothing but Factory Showroom - coming from a person who loves whole albums, that was one fantastic album.
It's a pity if Mass has archaic laws that prohibit what should plainly be a fundamental right.
The questions I'm left with are:
1. What states have these archaic laws
2. What movements can I support in those (if need be, in MY) states?
All hyperbole aside, those are important bits of information. If they've already been provided, please forgive me for missing them in the haypile. If they haven't, I'd very much appreciate anyone who can provide info - I'm absolutely sick to death of these backward law enforcement laws and I know that this type of thing is something that eventually will not be dealt with by the general public in a rational manner. See London.
I can second this - I have three Apple TV's and four Airport Expresses in the house and can easily mix & match speakers across the whole property from the back yard to the garage, bedrooms and bathrooms. Controllable from any computer, iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple TV in the house (including guests' iPhones).
s/guess/hope/
I received my DX a week ago now and am extremely pleased with it. PDF support is just fine - no zooming, no linking, no embedded video or HAL 9000 conversations either. It's fine for the PDFs you think it's gonna be fine for and likely not as fine for the ones you're suspicious about. Yes, symbolic stuff like math notation displays just fine - just not at microfilm resolution.
No, it won't zoom much - get a notebook if you want that. It's essentially a sheet-of-paper-emulator that the media has mistaken for a notebook. So if you'd expect to have to squint or hold the paper closer to your face on an economy-mode print of that PDF, expect the DX to struggle with it. All very common sense IMO.
This is a book reader that was made in the year 2009, not a holographic tricorder from 2020. It's primarily aimed at people who are satisfied with the written word in quantities exceeding the size of your typical AP story and who can sit quietly and just read for more than 30 minutes at a shot. Every dissatisfied Kindle review I've read tries to interpret the device in terms of the writer's politics (looking at you, DRM nuts) or some flashier gadget category, which has just reinforced my suspicion that reviewers are ADD children who just don't do much reading.
Seriously, in your brain your wife is a very complicated entity that's backed with a serious amount of information. Where you sat on your first date? That (hopefully) subtle look on her face when she can't stand her friend's conversation matter?
Might be more interesting to see how much you 'love' someone you actually despise but know very, very well.
Unless you have a horrible marriage or are a child, your marriage is a unique thing to your brain. Comparing it to your feelings for Angelina Anybody is just a little different than comparing it to your feelings for your driveway pavement (unless you're delusional ... another result I'd love to see).
Feel free to tell me to RTFA, I skimmed :p
That video was absolutely FANTASTIC. Thank-you so much for posting the link!!
My anecdotal experience is that the Home Depot specials simply suck. I've purchased 6 over time and have seen each of them burn out faster than the plain ol' 100-watters.
And don't get me started on the outdoor ones ... I live in a moderate climate that rarely dips below freezing and I've seen the 2 outdoor CF's I've tried fail in less than a year.
I'll also be sticking with 100-watt bulbs.
It's Ken KESEY, not Kezzie.
Pronounced "KEY-zee" ... not "KEH-zee".
To paraphrase The Dude, "Obviously, you're not a reader."
LOL, yeah, nice math.
...
Kinda like the case against California's medical marijuana act... Since giving away free marajuana will cause a reduction in interstate drug trade it falls under the fed's jurisdiction due to the interstate commerce clause.
These people need to get a grip on what's real and what's *expected*. Maybe some statistics classes or something
I agree wholeheartedly.
I've done 2 months of WoW (1 beta, 1 live) and it has left me unimpressed. No innovation, nothing new, lame graphics (even if you buy the whole 'style' thing), an atrocious patch download process, and at least 10% downtime in prime time hours (not counting the first few days).
Gamespot:
"The worst thing about World of Warcraft is that you can't just play it all the time."
No, I'd say the worst thing about it is the fact that I haven't been able to play it because of server outages and 39MB-over-6-hour patch downloads.
Gamespot:
"Warcraft features an overall level of quality that's typically reserved for the best offline games..."
Hm, well, if 'overall level of quality' is directly proportional to crash frequency you're dead on Gamespot! Why, my copy crashed 4 times just yesterday!
This might be the most anticipated game of the year (which would be saying something this year). It might be the most arousing game for you blizzard fetishists. But it's not the best all around game by a long shot.
My experience with Steam has been absolutely amazing, as has the experience of at least three friends... so perhaps we're the odd ones out, I don't know. When I downloaded HL2 I got steady speeds above 1 mbit/s and was shocked how quickly I had a playable game after the online purchase.
I don't experience any 'preparing' slowdown. And I'd be happy to suffer one in exchange for the seemless in-game server searching, buddy finding, chat, etc... Finally, NO MORE GAMESPY!
Some advice from my experience though: Don't buy the physical media. I have two copies on two computers, one downloaded and one from cds. The physical media copy arrived a day later, took swapping 5 cds to install, and requires a cd be in the drive when its played.
The copy downloaded from Steam does install-on-demand for the different games, didn't have to be attended while installing, and leaves my dvd drive free to play music or whatever while I play.
YMMV, but I find Steam to be an incredible feature of HL2, without a single drawback.
My preference:
// stuff
// blah
if ( this
|| (this)
|| (this) ) {
}
Further, you might see something like this:
if (this
|| ( this
&& this
&& this )
&& this
|| this ) {
}
My reasoning?
- I like to see the logical operators grouped in a way that's quick and easy to read
- Why stagger them on the ends of lines when you can group them on the beginnings of lines?
My understanding has always been that the local community coughs up the dough for these venues.
Yeah:
India: nuclear power, in conflict with another nuclear power, soon to be the most populous country on the face of the globe
Michigan, Ohio: not so much
c'mon
Roger Ebert addressed just this issue in an article on June 18th. He doesn't agree with your assertion and neither do I.
Oh, and I love the all-caps subject, guy. We don't have enough uninformed belligerent screaming in here.
Excuse me, but what the fuck does Iraq have to do with best/worst tech of 2003?
Seriously.
It's great hardware, has the 'big brother' factor for being made by MS, doesn't have much in the way of titles (so far)...
;-). It's a great game that I'd probably play for a couple weeks under normal circumstances.
But one thing that XBox games can do is let you listen to your own music.
I have become addicted to the freestyle snowboarding game Amped in the last year (while taking a few co-workers with me
But because I can listen to a customizable soundtrack of either Amped-supplied music or my very own cd's (ripped to the hard drive under the XBox os-interface), the game has far outlived its normal lifespan.
Letting me listen to my own selection of music has upgraded this game from passing obsession to daily dose of relaxation.
There is terabytes of music out there that the RIAA has no claim on, support it!
I love attending live music events. A few years ago I took up the hobby of taping these events.
There are *TONS* of artists out there, many 'famous', who would love for you to (1) come see them (2) tape their performance (3) give them a copy and (4) give your friends copies.
They want you to spread their music for FREE.
Who are they? Here's the most comprehensive list I know of:
http://btat.wagnerone.com/
But that's only the tip of the iceburg. For every artist that the record industry has chosen to support there are another hundred that are just as good who are out there gigging every night. My experience is that, even if they're not on the list, they're open to taping.
Better yet, a lot of them would be happy to sit down for a beer or shoot the shit between sets.
These are the real artists people. If you're upset about this RIAA crap then they've already won because they've succeeded in making you believe that they hold the leashes of all musicians everywhere and that art and music is a commodity.
So, instead of going to Borders to pump another $17.99 into the pockets of these RIAA diamond merchants, take a turn towards a local bar or other music venue. Have a drink, say hi to the artist... that's whats real.
-J
Granted, some applications are not suited for the web. But my experience is that the groups seeking to develop web apps usually have a strong and sensible motivation for developing a thin client application.
.NET (ASP.NET), which is, after all, the subject here.
.NET starting in January and have this to report:
.NET does well it's rapid, transparent, and object oriented (techinically & architecturally sound OO, that is) development of GUIS and, in particular, web applications! My research dealt with MFC, WinForms & WebForms. I have much experience with GUI development in Java also.
.NET. And the deeper I looked under the hood of ASP.NET the more impressed I was with its abilities.
.NET will come to dominate (or at least be very competitive in) the front-end tier due to the wonderful (though proprietary and very expensive) tools suite that accompanies it. It will likely flounder in the other tiers due to (1) the fact that J2EE is proven and pervasive (2) .NET is unproven (3) M$ seems to choose a 'next big thing for enterprise in the next decade' every three years and (4) a general hesitency to throw all eggs into the M$ basket.
...
:-)
And if you're complaint is about web applications that shouldn't be web applications, I could not agree more.
But if they complaint is regarding the trouble you've had with developing web apps, which it seems to be, I have to come to the conclusion that you've done very little in the way of webapp development with Visual Studio
Before I rant on, my *nix credentials are: I have used linux primarily since Redhat 5.0 and work at a company that does 70% of its work in the *nix world.
That said...
I spent 4 months working with
If there is ONE THING that
As much as I may love working in my cozy Emacs environs, I have to say that I was extremely impressed with what I could do with Visual Studio
You can develop ASP.NET web applications in VS.NET without really having to know that you're developing for the web at all. Or you can get down to the nitty-gritty and deal with low-level http details. You can remotely debug applications on other machines, stepping through code line-by-line. You can write GUI components that drag-and-drop into both WinForms and WebForms applications seamlessly, allowing you to develop business logic common to both web and win apps.
Though I never got to the implementation of this, you can likely implement/integrate the same drag-and-drop cross-platform components with mobile devices (PDAs, WAP, etc).
I could go on...
The best part is that the IDE has achieved a level of excellance that puts it in a class of its own. You can lay out, implement, debug, fix, debug, and deploy a webapp more quickly than in any other technology I have experienced. I *love* and mainly work in Java/Linux, but if someone came to me tomorrow and challenged me to get a webapp developed, debugged, deployed & stable in the shortest amount of time I'd have to go with ASP.NET.
[ and an important point here is that, with ASP.NET, I wouldn't have any problem with the 'webapp' part, it's a small distinction as long as you're using VS.NET ]
My conclusion matches closely what I have seen in analyst reports. Namely, that
But by all means though, acquire VS.NET and do some playing with ASP.NET if you're not convinced
In conclusion, I'm happy to be back in Emacs, but I'm not left feeling 'dirty' for having visited the land of VS.NET.